Hawk Wargames

Gen Con this year has been everything I was expecting it to be. Mostly: filled with awesome stuff to see and filled with lots of people! Saturday has always been the busiest day, and yesterday was no

Gen Con this year has been everything I was expecting it to be. Mostly: filled with awesome stuff to see and filled with lots of people! Saturday has always been the busiest day, and yesterday was no exception. And while there was a mildly-noticeable larger crowd, we weren't all packed in like sardines, for the most part. You could still get around to see all the great booths here at the show. Though taking pictures was sometimes difficult. But take them I did. And here they are for you to see.

I remember when Dropzone Commander was just coming out. I was exceedingly interested in this new miniatures game. A lot of my friends back in the day had played Epic, and it looked like that same sort

I remember when Dropzone Commander was just coming out. I was exceedingly interested in this new miniatures game. A lot of my friends back in the day had played Epic, and it looked like that same sort of feel to it. However, after watching a couple games, I realized it just wasn't quite for me. Not to say it was a bad game, by any means, it just didn't seem like a thing for me. Well, perhaps this new edition will change all that, as Hawk Wargames has announced they're in early alpha testing of Dropzone Commander 2nd edition.

From the announcement:

Hawk Wargames is excited to announce Dropzone Commander: 2nd Edition!

The current Dropzone Commander system is highly regarded and we are working on bringing you a new edition that retains its excellent core mechanics whilst improving many aspects to reflect warfare in the 27th Century.

We are in the stages of alpha testing the proposed changes and a closed beta will also take place with our Hawk Talon scheme. We expect a release in Q4 2017 with a release date announced closer to the time.

2nd Edition will bring balance to existing units and enhance a player's collection, not invalidate it. We want every unit to be playable. New units are in development which will be previewed over the next few months.

Beasts of War have interviewed Dave and they will have a video for you on Monday with more details including proposed changes and even more new artwork, including this incredible Archangel squadron!

Make sure to spread the news by sharing this post and let us know in the comments what you're looking forward to in the new edition.

Hawk Wargames' website wasn't quite doing everything they needed it to do. So they went through and did a redesign. They are ready to get the site off the ground and are even having a special sale alo

Hawk Wargames' website wasn't quite doing everything they needed it to do. So they went through and did a redesign. They are ready to get the site off the ground and are even having a special sale along with some new releases to celebrate.

From the announcement:

The new Saratoga Class Light Cruiser is now available to pre-order direct from the Hawk Wargames Website, along with a range of other very limited show only models, and a selected range of discounted resin scenery.

These items are only available for a short period of time and some in limited numbers, so get yours while you can.

Well, it's getting to be bedtime. Gotta get to sleep so I can make the epic migration back to the sauna that is Atlanta in August. I'm going to miss Gen Con. This was a good year. Despite the fact tha

Well, it's getting to be bedtime. Gotta get to sleep so I can make the epic migration back to the sauna that is Atlanta in August. I'm going to miss Gen Con. This was a good year. Despite the fact that I didn't get really much of a chance to hang out with too many people (Gen Con, if nothing else, is hundreds of "we'll hang out later" comments said in passing that, sadly, never get to actually happen), it was still a pretty good show. Lots of things to see. Lots of big announcements. And lots of photos. My phone says I've taken over 1,600 in the past several days, a good portion of which have been posted here for you. Speaking of which, here's the last galleries from the show.

It's day 3 here at Adepticon. It's been a wild day... and I'm not even talking about the gaming. We woke up to some lovely weather. And then, just about 10min. ago, for about a minute, the lights all

It's day 3 here at Adepticon. It's been a wild day... and I'm not even talking about the gaming. We woke up to some lovely weather. And then, just about 10min. ago, for about a minute, the lights all went out in the dealer's hall/gaming area. I just missed snapping a photo of everyone gaming for a moment via cellphone flashlight.

We're heading down that slope into the weekend, picking up speed as we go. Thursday is here and that means it's time to make sure your gaming table looks as good as possible with our Terrain Corner fe

We're heading down that slope into the weekend, picking up speed as we go. Thursday is here and that means it's time to make sure your gaming table looks as good as possible with our Terrain Corner feature.

WINTERDALE is a complete modular medieval fantasy city for 28mm tabletop wargames and RPG. Each model is delivered as a .stl file pack to be downloaded and printed on your home 3D Printer.

If you support us now you will get the free stretch goals and amazing upgrades as the pledge level rises.

For the last year we have been perfecting the process of 3D printing modular gaming terrain and have built up a great following selling our models through out the world. All our designs are modular so you can scale, customize and print buildings towers and walls. Each piece is individually sculpted for maximum detail and configured and optimized to print on small home printers.

New gaming mat release! This design is called Dropzone for a reason. It is suitable for a 10mm scale games and mat dimensions are compatible with standard size buildings. Play mat is available in several sizes and materials to choose from. Best served with tanks, dropships and teams of infantry – get one while it‘s hot!

Hawk Wargames takes to the air with their latest Kickstarter campaign. Well, more to the air than they already were with Dropzone Commander. How did those drop ships get to the planet they're commandi

Hawk Wargames takes to the air with their latest Kickstarter campaign. Well, more to the air than they already were with Dropzone Commander. How did those drop ships get to the planet they're commanding, anyway? That would be the spaceships of the various faction fleets. That's where Dropfleet Commander comes in. Take control of your own armada of ships, fighting off your enemy's fleet, in order to dominate the upper atmosphere.

The 2-player starter comes with everything you and an opponent need to get playing. It comes with 14 ships and their dial-bases. The ships can be constructed with several different armaments. The set also comes with a guide to make sure you're building your figures the way you want. There's also the rulebook, of course, as well a terrain map. The set even comes with its own dice and tape measure.

The campaign just launched and is already over their funding goal. So it's on to stretch goals for the next 34 days.

Broom Service lasts seven rounds. Each round you pick four of your ten role cards to play. When you play a role card you must state whether you are being brave or cowardly. Roles played as brave are more powerful but if another player has that role card they can steal the associated action. If you play a role as cowardly you get to do the action immediately, but it is not as good as a brave action.

You start Dragonwood by setting up the Landscape deck. This gets rid of some cards and puts the two dragons in the bottom half of the deck. Then you flip the top five cards of the Landscape deck face up. You also shuffle and deal each player five Adventurer cards.

Res Publica returns with a revised version under a different theme. In Res Publica: 2230AD, the players travel to the future, when races migrate through space searching for new areas in which to settle. Intensive trading brings together strong Races, encourages new settlements and promotes the development of civilization.

Murano employs an interesting rondel mechanic for selecting actions. The available options ring the board and eight gondolas are spread around this track – Murano is outside Venice and itself webbed by various canals. On your turn, you may pick any gondola and move it forward any number of spaces provided you don’t bump into or pass another gondola. If traffic’s backed up blocking the action you’d like and your horn don’t work, you can move any number of boats ahead one at a time per the normal rules, but only the first movement is free. Each successive move exacts an increasing amount of gold.

Mayday Games is probably best known for both the massive amount of card sleeves they sell, and for their dexterity games. In fact, Coconuts is a staple here at the BGQ HQ that makes it to the gaming table quite often. Lately though, it seems that Mayday has been branching out into other types of games.

Today, we are going to dig into Viceroy. Published first by Hobby World (in Russia), Viceroy was brought to our shores via Mayday Games’ Kickstarter campaign last year. Did those backers make a wise investment? Time to find out!

Viceroy is an Auction and Set Collection game for 1-4 players that takes about 60 minutes to play. We’ve found that Viceroy plays well with any of the player counts.

Today I'm talking about the sweeping Dropzone Commander by Hawk Wargames. DzC (as we'll abbreviate it for time and acronyminal sexiness) is a large-scale science fiction game set in the 27th century. As you all know, in the 25th century humanity was driven from its core worlds, including Earth, by the invasion of the parasitic Scourge. Now, 160 years later, it is time to TAKE THEM BACK!

In a couple of weeks the 2nd edition of Fantasy Flight’s Game of Thrones: The Card Game, with its direwolves, chunky coins and endless pictures of sultry nobles, will be released. A lot of people are very excited, and with good reason- the 1st edition amassed a cult following, and the 2nd edition looks incredibly sharp.

You won’t be getting our review just yet. As a Living Card Game, this box encourages players to collect monthly expansions and build their own decks, and we want to have conviction when we suggest you get involved (or not). But I can offer some early impressions and comparisons to the LCGs that this site has gone on the record as recommending, namely the bizarre Doomtown and the sublime Netrunner (on the subject, Paul will have a review of Plaid Hat’s new card game Ashes in the next few weeks).

We’re back with a look at the Storage Silo kit which is part of the Base-0 range from Systema Gaming – perfect for 28mm skirmish and wargames. We’ve previously reviewed the HQ Unit, the Habitat Units 1 & 2, and the Level 1 & 2 Walkways, so check those out for other parts of the Base-0 range.

Sigur of Battle Brush Studios takes a close look at the plastic M3A1 Half-Track. The article also has a little report of how he turned this M3A1 into an M5 Half-Track (the export version) for use with his 28mm Soviets.

There's only 3 important things you need take into account in Dropzone Commander from Hawk Wargames. Location, Location, Location. Getting the right troops where you need them at the right time is the

There's only 3 important things you need take into account in Dropzone Commander from Hawk Wargames. Location, Location, Location. Getting the right troops where you need them at the right time is the major key to victory. Without that, you're sunk. To help expand your arsenal and make sure that you have those right troops that you can get to all the places at the right times, Hawk Wargames has started taking pre-orders for the next set of releases for the game.

Everyone gets something, but not all at the same amounts. For the UCM, they take to the field with new Heavy Hazard Suits. They're good for protecting against the hostile environments on alien worlds, as well as the aliens that might be on those worlds. The Source get the Screamer and Raider Heavy Dropship, designed for precision strikes at pockets of resistance in the enemy lines. The PHR get their own specialist unit in the form of the Medusa and their transports, the Triton-X. I only wish I had as much control over machines as the Medusas do. Then for Shaltari there's the Pungari Auxiliaries. These large brutes come from a technologically-backward part of space, but are more than willing to die for their Shaltari masters, as long as one's there to see it. Witness!

Hawk Wargames will be posting up experimental rules for these units in a couple weeks, but you can pre-order your sets now from their webshop.

Hawk Wargames has posted up their Newsletter #40, which gives us a look inside the workings of their upcoming fleet miniatures game, Dropfleet (working title). They teased this game a bit at Salute, b

Hawk Wargames has posted up their Newsletter #40, which gives us a look inside the workings of their upcoming fleet miniatures game, Dropfleet (working title). They teased this game a bit at Salute, but now there's some concrete details. Much as in Dropzone Commander, Dropfleet will focus on maneuver and getting your troops where they need to be. Instead of taking place in deep space like other fleet games, Dropfleet will take place in close orbit around a planet (think of the battle over Coruscant in that one Star Wars movie that may or may not exist, depending on your opinions of such things). The rules have been designed by Andy Chambers, and will include frameworks for melding both Dropfleet and Dropzone Commander into one game. Check out previews of some of the UCM ships below the cut.They also have some previews of upcoming Dropzone Commander releases.

We've revealed some major details about our upcoming spaceship game set in the Dropzone Commander universe!

-Dropfleet will be an Orbital Combat game in which the vast majority of your games will take place in orbit above a planet's surface. The game has been designed for this from the ground up by Andy Chambers and is an entirely new and unique ruleset.

-A typical gaming table is 4'x4' and will show the surface of a planet rather than the more typical 'starfield' style space combat table. The area covered will be around the size of a large European country/US State.

-Delivering your troops to targets on the surface will be crucial for victory and most missions will be tactical and objective focused. Space stations, static defenses, ground troops, cities and other scenery play an integral part in the game.

-Three altitude layers (High Orbit, Low Orbit and Atmosphere) are present in games and have various effects. Only certain ships (such as Strike Carriers) can go atmospheric and each layer has advantages and disadvantages in different tactical situations.

-Weapons range is neither absolute nor fixed. It can change based on the power of your ship's scanners, the enemy ship's signature and the enemy's actions (firing several weapons greatly increases a ships signature for example). Stealth is frequently crucial!

-A framework for linking games of Dropfleet and Dropzone will be present in the rulebook, opening up many exciting possibilities for campaigns and narrative settings.

Hawk Wargames knows you only have one of the two elements of Dropzone Commander if you don't have any Commanders. As such, they've got new Commander Units for all their 5 factions. The models let you

Hawk Wargames knows you only have one of the two elements of Dropzone Commander if you don't have any Commanders. As such, they've got new Commander Units for all their 5 factions. The models let you lead from the front in their giant command vehicles. The figures are up for pre-sale now and will be shipped out on the 28th.

The below releases represent a devastating new Command strategy for all five races. These are now available for pre-order from today, with full release on the 28th of March. Lead from the front with these vanguard commanders, ready to get up close and personal with the enemy. Orders not containing pre-ordered items will generally be shipped within 3 working days, and typically faster.

"What's a news snippet?" I hear you ask. Well, they're just those shorter stories that we come across here at TGN that don't have much to go with it. Maybe it's a piece of concept art that we don't kn

"What's a news snippet?" I hear you ask. Well, they're just those shorter stories that we come across here at TGN that don't have much to go with it. Maybe it's a piece of concept art that we don't know what specific game it's for. Or it's an unlabeled green. Or it's something else along those lines that aren't a full story, but we want to make sure you know about it anyway. We've collected them together and have them here for you now.

Litko will be helping Dropozone Commander players upgrade their game soon with a new line of gaming accessories compatible with the popular miniature wargame. The line will include Tactical flight bases which have the firing arcs laser etched into them, Blast/LZ Templates, Goal Oriented scenario tokens, Building Damage markers, and Faction specific activation tokens.

Working directly from gamer feedback, Litko has made each blast template to incorporate all firing arcs and center cuts to fit around the flight stand pole for perfect centering on flying models. The Goal oriented tokens will include the proportionate number of double-sided Possible and Revealed Objective tokens for both Objective scenario types. Over-sized and reverse etched for high visibility, the Building Markers won't ever be overlooked across war-torn skylines. Each faction specific token set strikingly features a unique icon and color for activation tokens along with Forward Air Controller tokens for your forces.

Litko has released a production photo of the entire line. Pricing to follow.

The Resistance is a complex, characterful and disparate assortment of human survivors on the Cradle Worlds and Earth itself, currently occupied by the dreaded alien Scourge. The very existence of the Resistance has shaped UCM military planning for its Reconquest, which became a war of liberation rather than simply a war of revenge as soon as they were discovered. Indeed, the Resistance alone are responsible for a reconquest being possible at all, as they were able to activate and maintain foldspace nodes on all but one of the Cradle Worlds, allowing UCM invasion fleets to jump to their locations accurately. Theirs is a tale of loss, grit and determination to survive in the face of insurmountable odds.

This imposing model is the very first kit in our exciting new Collector's Edition range. It is a complete 3x scale up and re-working of the original 10mm scale Ares Battle Walker - be sure to check out the gallery for this product, as it illustrates just how much bigger a 3-up is! Although this model makes a fantastic display centrepiece, it is cast from the highest quality tough resin and is more than suitable for gaming, should you wish to use the model for skirmish-based systems.

This finely detailed resin kit is far from a simple scale up. Many new features have been added and most of the original detail has been re-mastered to suit this scale. We have ensured that this kit delivers the level of detail that fans of our DZC range have come to expect. The legs have also been made completely posable - right down to the toes! This makes all sorts of dynamic poses possible, allowing you to make yours truly unique.

These offers are for the Christmas period, and extend to 3rd January 2014.

For a guaranteed Christmas delivery, please place orders by Sunday 15th December.We will continue to process and ship orders until the 20th December (though these orders are not guaranteed for delivery before Christmas - though we will do our best!)

From 21st December to the 6th January 2014 Hawk Wargames will not be dispatching orders, however any order placed will be honored and dispatched as soon as possible from the 6th January.

Hawk Wargames has announced a new 2-player Starter Set for Dropzone Commander. We got some photos of the contents for it in our GenCon photos from the show. It's pretty awesome.Also, look for a review

Hawk Wargames has announced a new 2-player Starter Set for Dropzone Commander. We got some photos of the contents for it in our GenCon photos from the show. It's pretty awesome.Also, look for a review of it in the next issue of Ravage magazine.

From the announcement:

Hawk Wargames is pleased to announce the brand new Dropzone Commander 2 Player Starter Set! It is designed to be one of the most complete wargaming starter sets ever released. Containing two sizable starter forces, the full sized 1.1 DZC Core Rulebook, plenty of accessories as well as a starter battlefield with a set of card scenery, the only other things a new player will need are glue and paints! This boxed set makes a fantastic entry point into the Dropzone Commander universe as well as a great way for existing players to add to the core of their forces.

All the 10mm scale miniatures in this box set are injection moulded in plastic. These crisply moulded models feature extremely fine detail, matching Hawk Wargames resin kits in quality.